Inside Designer John Galliano’s Treasure-Filled French Hideaway with 7 Unique Objects | Vogue

it's super relaxing in here it's great i mean i come here to reconnect stay in the present pull out my favorite v a book and um dream i love to surround myself with objects for they inspire not just the energy they bring with them but my relationship to them where i found them the excitement of the unknown that one kinder door that opens the door and opens another door and another door behind if you like they create a dialogue and they stir emotions and when those emotions are stirred i'm able to create i'm john gagliano and today i'm really happy to share with you some of my objects of the faction objects i've collected through the years whether it be traveling historically or geographically [Music] come on james hello here we are in a room that used to be a winery which is where the monks lived in the 1700s and i would like to share with you this collage that i produced i was very lucky to meet a fabulous lady called madame shirak that's gypsy she has a cold excuse us she was running the museum in a museum of obeson and i was fascinated with the tapestries and it was there that i was introduced to these pieces of art really called cartoons and cartoons are the first expression if you'd like that the artists would make in courage mains sometimes you'll find borders or panoramics landscapes and i've kind of cut them up and put them together to create these colors and i love the idea the trump loyal effect if you like of the real trees swaying and refracting in their light and then this image in front of it i was playing with the idea of outside in and the inside out and it works it works it's super relaxing in here it's great i mean i come here to reconnect stay in the present pull out my favorite v a book and dream i would love to introduce you to my favorite houseguest she's in a really good mood today so we're all super happy because yesterday her favorite hat was sent to paris and it was biked over this morning so she's super thrilled and i'd love to introduce you to auntie auntie is a artist model auntie's 110 years old my stan is critic she does all the fittings with me i found her in matra and i kind of like to imagine that maybe she was struck a pose and inspired some of those younger artists who would have frequented that area this is auntie [Music] well these are called sudare they're 1750s i think from a japanese monastery the best fun was choosing the accessories some of them are even trimmed with gold lamy ribbons from koko chanel i was very lucky to meet a fabulous lady called lilu marcon and she invited me to have tea with her at that first tea the most wonderful thing happened i don't know if something fell out of her pocket or it was already on the floor i really can't remember and she picked it up and it was like a little kosher a little peg and she offered it to me and while offering it to me she informed me that it had been given to her by coker [Music] so along the walls you'll see a collection of paintings drawings aquarelles photographs that mean a lot to me that mean a lot to me because they start emotion and when emotions have start i can start to create and over here you'll see a fantastic black and white picture by mr penn irving who i had the greatest pleasure and honor to meet and to work with often when i've been stuck on complicated dresses and things i just come on john you've got to work this out you've got to get this one because mr pen's gonna photograph it and somehow his energy penetrates me in the creative process and i always finish the dress so i like to have the spirit of mr pen in the room i'd always try to work out the light and how did he do this and how was that and this shape and then when i saw the way he worked and that it was with god's light with the real light and that he would paint like a watercolor and around you it's really special i mean there's good energy this is a wonderful fashion illustration by a gentleman called howard tang howard is now retired but up until not so long ago he was still the life drawing the fashion illustrating tutor at say martin's school of art i spent a lot of time with howard you feel him breathing down your shoulder and neck my drawings were quite labored to begin with as they often are so he would give me a lot of tests if you like okay john we've got 60 seconds here i want you to get the spine done map out the head and the hip and speed drawing i didn't really understand what was going on but it was training the retina to stay on the subject and never looked down at the paper and it was howard who was really kind of built me up building up building me up to become a fashion illustrator [Music] i'd love to invite you into the salon zone that room has a wonderful energy and this is a fantastic yellow inspired from pipitavash so they would feed the cows mangoes we got a nickname for the salon jean and that's madame le pigeon salon like with a lot of my collections i created a narrative i wanted to produce some lumiere and also something that looked like it had been here when we moved in it hadn't i worked with a fantastic artist called eloise darjom i told her my fantasy if you like and the obsession with the 1700s and the idea to create this artwork she had to find a place that would be able to cook these tiles we'd find an oven that would take on the number of tiles required so that it would all match it was quite a number to produce but i think you'll agree it looks like it's been here um forever that is a great great joy um to contemplate and lose myself in the story the young boy watering his potager and offering flowers to the lady of the manor i would love to introduce you to one of my favorite images ever it's an image by brassei and it's of madame de bijou madame libiju has inspired many a collection i still lose myself in this image the volume of the coat the hat the wall the jewels the fallen stockings the tap dancing shoes i mean it's just an endless dialogue with madame libiju she's amazing i'm so happy to have shared these things with you i guess what one could learn from this is how much objects of perfection mean to me and how through the dialogue i create and how i juxtapose certain things they stir emotion and it's a magical place to be thank you [Music] you

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Length: 8min 56sec (536 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 16 2021